La transformación revanchista del centro histórico de Guadalajara, México: gentrificación y otras falsas dicotomías

Abstract

This study addresses the recent spatial transformations in the historic centre of Guadalajara, Mexico. Through critical analysis, the article reveals the drastic processes of population displacement and restructuring of retail practices in the public space; conceptualizing them as revanchist spatial transformations born out of dichotomist discourses for their implementation. Drawing upon literature, mapping and interviews collected through fieldwork, the study addresses the strategies of elite coalitions, examining their contestations vis-à-vis emerging social resistances in order to excavate the possibilities for accommodating the inherent alterity of Mexican urbanism beyond binary conceptions that only favour the increasing commodification of urban space.